Hi 

The news is out and so are the source codes of dot net framework. Microsoft has released the source code for dot net class library. This is one of the biggest news in the waiting for a long time.

Today ScottGu announced the release of the source code of dot net framework class library. The source are released and well integrated with the Visual studio 2008 and that even allows you to debug through the source code when you get stuck.

Hi,

Here s something that I found very useful on the Dot net framework3.5.  If you have just started to learn about Dot net framework 3.5 and want to know all the changes in the name space and the new namespaces includes in the framework, below is the chart showing it.

The Dot net framework poster is also available in many formats. Below are the links for the same.

Hi,

News of November is here. Microsoft has released the latest version of Visual Studio 2008 and Dot net framework 3.5. If you want to use the free Visual Studio 2008 Express editions (which are much smaller and totally free), you can download them here. 

Although I have mentioned it before, here is a quick recap of the new features of Visual Studio 2008

Multi targeting support (supports framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5)

Asp.Net Ajax Support.

JavaScript  intelligence

JavaScript Debugging

VS 2008 new Web designer.

Very good support for CSS

Language Improvement and LINQ.

Data Access improvement with LINQ to SQL.

Hi,

Yesterday I was working on a small page for helping one of my friends with a utility (I will update the small bit as a new Utility section in the site very soon). In the small bit of code I had to take a string convert it to a stream, and then read the stream one line each.

I was working with the stream class conversion of the stream and thought of posting the code. Here is the code for converting a string to a stream.

System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();

Hi,

Here is a big update on my previous Post. I found this news at the Dave’s Blog and thought of sharing it.

The date 27 Feb 2008 has been kept for the release of the three big products (Visual studio 2008 Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008). This does not mean it will release on the same day. The release might be before that. According to the blog Microsoft is trying to make the release today itself. 

Thanks
Vikram

Hi,

A few days back, I was working with some FTP command. Then I realized that many people had asked me to provide some help on the FTP commands. Hence I decided to write a post on some of the common FTP commands for windows with their small explanation.

Hi

Mark the day 27 February 2007 in your calendar. If you are a dot net developer then this is one of the biggest day for you. Three of the major products to be launched in one day. It’s unbelievable. Windows Server 2008, Visual studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 all being scheduled to launch in one day. 

Thanks
Vikram

P.S. Also start hoping that they get it right and dont delay this release.

Hi

A few days back when I was working with string. At many point of time I had to make a checking for empty string. I started thinking about the difference between “” and string.empty. and which one is a better way to check if the string is empty or not.

The difference between string.Empty and “” is very small. String.empty will not create any object while “” will create a new object in the memory for the checking. Hence string.empty is better in memory management.

But the comparison with string.length == 0 will be even faster and the better way to check for the empty string. And I also have a bias for checking with string.length in this case. But do not forget to make a checking for null value if you are also expecting null value in the comparison.

Happy coding
Vikram